The purpose of this study was to investigate the interactional effects of sex, age, adolescents' self-concept and parental discipline style on adolescents' self-control. The parental discipline style consisted of subconcept such as affection, discipli...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the interactional effects of sex, age, adolescents' self-concept and parental discipline style on adolescents' self-control. The parental discipline style consisted of subconcept such as affection, discipline through reasoning, monitoring, over-control, and punishment. Subjects of this study were 482 middle schools students drawn from 4 schools and 587 high school students drawn from 5 schools in Cheong-ju city. The pilot study was done to examine the applicability of survey instruments. Data were analyzed by the frequency, percentage, Cronbach α, t-test, ANOVA with Scheffe post-hoc test, correlation, and hierarchial regression analysis using SPSS 12.0 program.
The results of this research were as follows:
First, there were significant differences in father's discipline style according to adolescents' sex and age, the type of father's job, and father's education level.
Second, there were significant differences in mother's discipline according to adolescents' sex and age, and mother's education level.
Third, there were significant differences in adolescents' self-control according to adolescents' age, father's and mother's education level.
Forth, there was an interacting effect between sex and father's reasoning discipline on adolescents' self-control. For boys, self-control was affected by father's reasoning discipline. That is, the boys had the high level of the self-control when the level of father's reasoning discipline was high.
There was an interacting effect between sex and father's monitoring on adolescents' self-control. Boy's self-control was affected by father's monitoring. That is, the boys had the high level of the self-control when the level of father's monitoring was high.
There was an interacting effect between adolescents' self-concept and father's punishment on adolescents' self-control. Adolescents' self-control was affected by self-concept and father's punishment. That is, adolescents had the high level of self-control when they had the high level of self-concept and less of father's punishment.
Fifth, there was an interacting effect between sex and mother's reasoning discipline on adolescents' self-control. Boys' self-control was affected by mother's discipline through reasoning. That is, boys had the high level of the self-control when the level of mother's discipline through reasoning was high.
There was an interacting effect between sex and mother's monitoring on adolescents' self-control. For girls, self-control was affected by mother's monitoring. That is, girls had the high level of the self-control when the level of mother's monitoring was high.
There was an interacting effect between age and mother's reasoning discipline on adolescents' self-control. For middle school students, self-control was affected by mother's reasoning discipline. That is, the middle school students had the high level of self-control having more of mother's reasoning discipline.
There was an interacting effect between adolescents' self-concept and mother's punishment on adolescents' self-control. Adolescents' self-control was affected by self-concept and mother's punishment. That is, adolescents had the high level of the self-control when the level of self-concept was high and mother's punishment was low.